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[Simon Ravnic]

Hi Ron & others!

> I am now getting so much spam on a daily basis that its getting painful
<snip>
>I can only play defense.

But with clever defense you can make them suffer. The easiest way to do this
is use Spamcop (http://spamcop.net/). It goes like this. You open an account
and they give you special email address to where you forward all the spam
that you receive. Before forwarding it you copy&paste in all the message
headers (explained on site). Spamcop process incoming spam and notifies
administrators of host relaying junk email. This doesn't reduce amount of
spam in your mailbox but it helps fighting against it globaly.

But that is just a start. SpamAssassin (http://spamassassin.org/) is another
great tool. This is a mail filter installed at mail server that helps
identifying incoming spam. Based on some clever rules and techniques it
marks incoming mail as spam and then you just set up a filter (in e.g.
Outlook) that put's such mail directly to Trashbin. If you don't run your
own mail server you can still put some pressure on your ISP and try to make
him use this.

I'm using both tools and I get around two spam emails per week. All others
are rejected (IP blocking tools) by SpamAssassin at mail server or marked as
spam and deleted.

> Ron N5IN

73
Simon, S53ZO

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